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I have had a few reports that EDGE does not work on 3.0. I believe it does. Here is the story with it.

The EDGE toggle does not disable the EDGE radio. You cant do that without disabling the phone system. Instead, it just tells the iPhone settings that the network connection that EDGE uses is “unavailable”. This is the same method that has been used for EDGE toggle since 1.1 firmware in early BossPrefs.This blocks all data since it’s no longer a valid data connection. Now you may indeed have an E or even a 3G if you have EDGE off and 3G on. But you will not be able to get onto the internet. You may also have an IP address.

See some screenshots:
Start with the first one. Notice you will see 3G in the statusbar? But safari cannot get onto the web.

On the 2nd one, you also have an IP address even though you are still not on the internet. (This is the same picture, I just swiped sbsettings into view).

Now, someone indicated that with push mail you are still getting data coming through. Indeed this could be the case. While the network is basically unavailable, for packets that originate outside of the iPhone they probably can still come through. This means if you want to be sure EDGE is off, do not have any sort of push service running.

As a side effect, you cannot tell EDGE is really off without checking safar. Also, it is possible some MMS services use the data connection to send the pictures. If these also originate from the carrier there’s no disabling them either.

Yeah, that’s massively rude! Does no-one understand etiquette anymore? Posts like that are there because obviously there’s a lot of people complaining about something. It’s easier to tell everyone than to tell each individual OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

I totally appreciate your efforts BB. I maintain some Firefox stuff and know just how much grief you can get from people for giving them your time and effort for free!

Ooh.. actually, as long as I’m posting, I just remembered that Evernote doesn’t seem to be working on 3.0 anymore. It’s crashing when creating a new note. Skype was crashing on startup before the update to MobileSubstrate I got this morning so I’m glad that’s working again!

Do you know why the Auto Lock togggle causes and endless lock look at the lock screen? Every time I try to unlock the phone it just locks right away. Had to do a restore. That seems to be the only toggle not working for me other than scrobble.

I was having probs with cydia (kept crashing on me) so I thought I’d check here if people are having the same problems. It works fine now after respring, but I read this post and yeah, that makes sense BB. If in fact you can’t really lock the connection then if there’s a request from outside then there’s no blocking it. too bad.

About MMS, I’ll try to test it out and see what happens. At least it wouldn’t stay on all the time, I hope. Here I get charged my the minute, so ..

You should better to restore with genuine iPod2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw by using iTunes.
Then,try JB again and install latest SBsettings from Cydia.It’s gonna be fine. (^o^)/
Only issue on Touch2G,Bluetooth Toggle won’t appear despite it’s turned on or off

hey, im using wifi and sbsetting together. “more” option is working. ssh & other toggles working fine. no problem or crash at all. i dont know with categories coz im not using it. its not compatible w/ spotlight. just remember that after an install or download, respring your phone.

iphone 3g, jailbreak via itunes with custom 3.0 firmware. i did not use redsnow

BigBoss, are you aware that there is an issue in SBSettings that when you are connected to WiFi the MORE button doesn’t work? When I am connected to WiFi and I click on the MORE button the INITIALIZING screen pops up for like 10 seconds and then just crashes to springboard. But when I turn off WiFi it works just fine.

I’m using an Unlocked 2G iPhone on T-Mobile with a Custom 3.0 IPSW created in PWNAGE.

Hi BigBoss, I am new here. I have a cuple of question that is, 1. How can I upgrade my firmware? 2. Is it a right time? 3. I am using iphone 2G, can i upgrade my phone software with 3G? Please help me….

I dont know why some complain that sbsetting crashed when used with wifi on. Im curious. How did you guys jailbreaked your iphone? Sbsetting and all of its features are working fine with my iphone 3g even with wifi on. I did mine via itunes using custom 3.0 firmware i downloaded somewhere coz i have xp. Maybe its the way we jailbreak it? I dont know

Have you try doing it in itunes? shift restore to the custom firmware? I was already jailbroken in 2.2 when i tried this. Can anyone confirm this? Coz sbsetting and other apps i mentioned in the compatibility list are working flawlessly, with wifi on all the time. So the bugs came with the phone, redsnow, or cracked apps?

I upgraded my 2g to OS 3.0, jailbroke and unlocked using redsn0w and I have this exact issue. I put the correct information in for APN and get maybe 10 seconds of Edge usage in Safari before it just doesn’t work anymore… Even though there is the E for EDGE, just like you said. Is there a workaround? Thanks in advance!

EDGE works great on my prepaid 1st Gen(2g)with 3.0 update running Pandora and Insomnia. Matter of fact, I dont have ANY music on my iphone. No matter where I drive around or go, now as there is a revised APN.

Mine works great. No need to modify the APN. I noticed that they are now using in 3.0, APN:Phone/USERNAME:Leave blank/PASSWORD:Leave blank
If that still does not work you may have to go in and edit your preferences.plist file.

Hey guys, I don’t know about other people, but I think there’s a difference in the way you jailbreak your phone => Redsnow vs. Pwnage. People seem to be getting different problems. I used Pwnage as soon as it came out and everything works fine, sort of (Still testing the battery issue. There’s a discussion going at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2044005&start=0&tstart=0 about phone running hot and battery life runnung short)

I mean my phone doesn’t crash when I hit ‘more’, wifi on or not. What I just found out today is that when I turn EDGE off, the signal goes down right? and it goes up again, like usual. I swipe open the toggle and EDGE shows red, but when I hit ‘refresh’ it turns green on its own. no IP on EDGE or anything though.

I tested this with all my PUSH and FETCH off. I even deleted all the settings for MMS and rebooted. The same thing still happens.

many many Thanks!
I was wondering why the phone was bleading money over time. My situation is a US 2G iphone in Germany on a t-mobile prepaid (I moved recently). Here in Germany, T-mobile has a prepaid option of 9cents/min unlimited data, so that turning on/off edge is really really practical. Anyway:
turning off push removes any ip. Push on with Edge off still shows an ip and some data goes through.
Editing the APN leads to a sluggish GUI.

@Bigboss Relating to your post above i did disable edge on sbsettings and even mail push.Also i cant access safari as well However i have push notification on(AP Mobile)on but never got any notification from them but my cellular data usage shows data used.I presume its from the Push Notification being on. Cant we get push notification only using WIFI?

I’m on an iPod 1G jailbroken with redsn0w 0.7. Not sure if other people are having this problem since no1 has posted on it. Using SBSettings, on reboot SSH turns itself back on. Everything else that’s either on or off before the reboot keeps it’s previous setting, just SSH that switches back on. It’s not a huge problem and I’m sure you’ve got your hands full with larger issues related to OS3.0. Just a tiny security hole especially when using public wifi, if someone reboots their device and forgets to turn off SSH. =)

i cannot update the sbsettingstoggles.. it always gives me some error “trying to overwrite var/cache/archives/… in package cydia” .. i tried to set that folder 777 but it didnt help.. also i get this error: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)”. Also i cannot uninstall bossprefs anymore.. i deleted it now from the appliaction folder but still cydia wants me to update it.. plz help :(

Installing worked for me after settings the archives folder chmod to 777. However i still cannot remove bossprefs.. i tried it manually by deleting the bossprefs.app but still it keeps telling me to update my bossprefs

What I did to fully disable Edge was to install the app APN Editing and then intentionally make a typo in my APN name.

After doing that I toggled Edge and this time the Edge Data IP did not come up.

It would be great if you could automate that process in your Edge toggle by appending some bogus string to the APN setting and then removing it on the toggle. e.g: Appending #disabled and removing it automatically when the Edge setting is toggled.

Can someone please help me. I have the original iPhone. I had it updated to 3.0 firmware. It is jail broken and unlocked. I want to make sure to do accidently go on the internet. When I had firmware 2.2.1, I had boss preference. I was able to turn Edge off and still able to surf the internet using wi-fi. Now I can’t find the Edge button. How do I turn off Edge. Am I still able to surf the internet using wi-fi and not get charged by AT&T?

As long as your wifi is “on” your iPhone should default to it when using safari. When it’s off it looks for it through Edge. BossPrefs probably will not be supported in the future because SBSettings as a BigBoss replacement. I like it much better. Download and try it.

I get a connection every time I open calendar or mail, with the 3G and Edge deactivated.
My company charges per connections, so now the solution is to change the apn to something inexisting (ie: gprs-service.com-no)

This did not happen with the previous version of SBSettings and iPhone OS 2.2.1.

Me too, im also getting some edge usage ($$$$$) even though i turned it of with sbsettings.

also i changed the settings on the phone library so the phone couldn’t find my service provider BUT i got a larger problem, once i do that i stop receiving calls…if you dial my number you go straight to voice mail…i reboot it and it works again for an uncertain amount of time…any suggestions?

I found out all my problem starts with the push option in the mail settings menu.

If you want to make sure your edge toggle works you NEED to turn the push service off…also if you change your settings through ssh o iphone browser make sure you turn push off…otherwise you might get some issues receiving phone calls

I have also the problem with my iPhone 2g FW 3.0. If I switch off edge with SBSettings i can’t open a page with safari but in the background there is still trafic… And changing the APN settings doesn’t works for me (my provider doesn’t need any settings…) turn the push service off doesn’t work either.

my solution (its been working for 3 days now) was to change the preferences.plist file through iphone browser. I just added an extra letter on the address my service provider has (example: internet.comcel.com.co). I just added an “S” after the .co.

Also I changed the username and password. After that I rebooted the phone and now I couldn’t connect even if I had edge toggled “ON” in sbsettings. Now here is where I had my problem at the beginning, once I did this I wouldn’t receive calls.

So I did a restore through iTunes and jailbroke again. Installed sbsettings, changed the stuff I just mentioned and turned the push setting “OFF” in the “FETCH NEW DATA” under the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars…” in the settings menu of the iPhone.

Make sure all your email accounts are set to “FETCH” in the Advanced menu.

That has done it for me so far…hope it works for you and I hope it keeps working for me. So far no data used through cellular network and no $$$ out off my pocket

Hi guys, same problem with my EDGE! everytime i respring, in cellular network data i found Sent 5 Kb and received 9 Kb!!!! i reset and try again! but every time in this section i found a charge of some Kb! Edge disabled in sbsetting and APN disabler profile!
Some issues??

Hi,
I have the same problem as “guy Says”. I turned edge off with SBsetting. When using wifi, i still get data sent and received everytime on “cellular network data”. Edge is definitely disabled with sbsetting. When I try the APN disabler profile it fixes the problem…then I DON’T receive calls. After deleting the APN disabler I was able to receive calls again. My solution was to turn wifi off and have edge turned off with sbsetting. Now I can’t access anything internet using apps such as mail, safari..etc. Does anyone have the same problem? Can Sbsettings some how update and fix this?

I forgot to mention I have Iphone firmware 3.0. (Jailbroken with redsnow) original 2G. All of my PUSH mail features and data roaming are turned off. The previous version 2.2.1 never had a problem with this.

Hey this is really f’d. Hundreds of your users just lost EUR50 because your toggle stopped working. BossPrefs never had this problem. I’ve always had push enabled and never had rogue data charges until a few days ago. My prepaid account got totally wiped out. Now I have to shut everything off.

When I check my activity with my provider, it looks like the problem began on the 7th of July. Whatever was the current version then is the one that broke EDGE disabling.

It looks like I’ll have to ditch prepaid if this persists. That’d be a shame.

In my case, disabling push everywhere and turning Edge off with SBSettings has been enough… to stop the money drip, but not to avoid data connections. If I query the cosumption in my provider’s site, there are daily edge connections of 0kb and 0 euros that I never had before. Probably if your provider charges for the simple connection you keep loosing money.

Hi BigBoss.
First of all thanks for the hard work.
I had the issues you’ve stated with the 2.2.1 OS if I used SBsettings, The only way i could safely toggle edge with no failure was using Ripdev’s Hood package, wich uses a completely different way of toggling edge.
Ripdev hasn’t upgraded Hood and now I’m back to Sbsettings but those Edge problems keep banging.
Why not make an alternate edge toggle based on ripdev’s Hood Edge toggle code?
Since they’ve discontinued Hood for 3.0 they might not bother sharing the code…
I’ll love to do that but I’m not a hacker…

Thanks for the awesome work, other than the edge toggle, sbsettings is an amazing program that i use all the time.

Exactly same problem that POST #79… I’m in French Polynesia so my Carrier is “Unknown Carrier” since the iphone comes from Canada… Everything else is working fine, but not able to “Really” turn EDGE off… If I change carrier settings, I don’t get incoming calls (or sometimes, but I don’t understand well)… I bet someone is going to figure out how to solve this problem soon ;)

Because I’m using an FM Transmitter in the car, I was able to hear a perment activity when I typed something else in the APN settings + I could see fast battery discharge : the iPhone try to connect permanently to edge network which seems to make incoming calls impossible! So the best way yet is to ask your provider to desactivate Edge.

I hope SBSettings will be soon able to desactivate completely Edge just like on OS 2.2.1 !

I’m going to post a tip for everybody who has the edge toggle problem.
It worked both for me and my girlfriend, both being on different carriers and having the problem of not being able to toggle edge off.
-Go to Icy and install Ripdev preferences (2.0.3)
-Go to cydia and istall Sbsettings.
-Reboot your device
-Try to toggle edge off and test if you can connect to the internet on the safari app.
-If your edge is still working try to toggle a couple more times and test with safari app again.
After this SafariApp will give you the “can not open page” warning.

Still even if my edge toggle is set to off i can tether my iphone 3g if tethering is set to “on” but definitely not anymore unwanted edge/$$$ leaks on my iphone 3g or my girlfriends iphone 2g.

Hi, same problem :(
The strange thing is that it works well outdoors, but not at home. I have connection of exactly 10 minutes (600 seconds) with 0 data, but at home I have 3 or 5KB every aprox 1000 seconds.

Does MobileSubtrade do anything about it?
I think the problems began when I updated this program.

Seems to work on 3.1 3G Phone. The Data IP don’t come up, but when I enable Wi-Fi (via SBSettings) the Data IP come back.
I will try to completly remove the APN settings via SSH on the conf file, since the FakeAPN from hackit.co.nz is faulty on this phone (battery drains out like hell !).
I’l keep you informed.

I used SBSettings to turn off GPRS/EDGE on my iPhone 2G phone with fw 3.01.
After changing to fw 3.01 and jailbraking and adding a bunch of software it happend a couple of times that my prepaid sim card suddenly lost money down to 0.00 at one time.
Since I had SBSetting EDGE off and hadn’t used the phone at all I suspected that it still could be some data traffic.

To be really sure, to stop data traffic, I changed the spelling to my phone provider in the APN settings.

After that my phone runs hot and drains the battery within a day.

I then restored the phone, fw and restore of my software from AppStore.
This time I neither used any of that software nor installed anything from Icy, Cydia.

Same thing again. With wrong APN settings the phone gets hot.

Before I did the re-install I used ssh to get into the phone and there I ran command top.
I could see that with the APN settings misspelled there were two process using 5-10% cpu utilization. Springboard and CommCenter.

Same problem here (2G, fw v3.1.2, SBS v3.0.5). I can’t connect to Safari, but yesterday I was surfing on the AppStore (using the iPhone), and my Wifi connection was buggy (because of my AP). So it was difficult to download, and I saw some IP for Edge (SBS panel). This morning, bam! 10€ in connection data (that’s 2MB downloaded ^^). I think this is because some apps don’t use the default settings, and go beyond the SBS protection. So does the AppStore. I’m going to test the fake APN, to see if it’s better!
HTH, and if you find a solution, tell us. Keep up the good work BB!

Hello, what a nice info, But I have a small question please, why the SBSettings do not release the Network IP, and once the user re-start the EDGE service it will renew the IP and will take it from the network DHCP (as normal). This will ensure 100% that there is no packets in-between. because as you know if the IPhone took an IP, the Network will do some authentication each time. As I can see from my bill, there are 2 to 4 cents using data every 5 to 10 minutes while I am not doing anything with the phone, and calculating it by month, it exceeded the 20$.

I just Jailbroke my iPhone 3GS and installed SBsettings but my edge connection still works. I even installed the fake APN but it still connects. Safari will browse the web just like before and the email works fine. Any suggestions on disabling edge?

Thanks for the application. I installed it and it worked, but it seems as if I have some problems. I can’t connect to the net at all anymore. Almost as if some toggle is stuck, although both ‘EDGE’ and ’3G’ are green. I wonder what happened to the ‘DATA’ square, I can’t find it but I know it was there… Maybe that one is stuck on red? Is there any way to remove the function completely and restore to how it was before?

Hi BibBoss,
Just like Axel said, I installed the new update… 3.0.13, now I have no internet, no “EDGE” square (seems that my internet only worked with EDGE and 3G on), now I´m stuck with the new update and haven´t been able to reconnect to the internet, I don´t care about charges, I need the net, where did the “EDGE” button went?

Is there a way to rollback to previous version? remember I have no internet anymore! so I won´t be able to download anything.

hey boys , im with virgin and runnin iphone4 on 4.3.3 and everything is runnin just fine, except the outgoing calls and i mean everything but.
can someone point me the right way pls? and by the way hats off to you guys for coming this far ive got an imei block and still getting throug

hey boys , im with virgin and runnin iphone4 on 4.3.3 and everything is runnin just fine, except the outgoing calls and i mean everything but.
can someone point me the right way pls? and by the way hats off to you guys for coming this far ive got an imei block and still getting throug